Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a violent row in the Bundestag , for instance , when the SPD leader , Kurt Schuhmacher , attacked Adenauer for cosying up to the enemy by calling him ‘ the Allies ' Chancellor ’ in 1949 . |
| 2 | There are very few varieties of olives that would be suitable for eating straight from the trees as the fruits , especially the unripened green olives , are usually very bitter . |
| 3 | The walk follows a winding road out of Ballycastle for a short while , but it is worth branching off at the sign for Kinbane Castle . |
| 4 | Secondly , the Soviets ' penchant for canvassing exhaustively for the best and cheapest may succeed in these objectives , but at the cost of enormous delay between the time when applications are approved and machinery actually installed . |
| 5 | Everything around us makes us enthusiastic about knitting again after the lazy outdoor days of summer . |
| 6 | They were made to battle all the way by Kelso who fought back bravely after flanker Clive Millar was sent off for stamping just before the interval . |
| 7 | After all , she 's hit the headlines on numerous occasions , what with smashing up the inside of a taxi a couple of years ago and then being done for speeding twice in the space of about 15 minutes . |
| 8 | Generally , the Bristol and English Channels with the high ground of Devon and Cornwall between correspond roughly with the distribution of basin and range in New Red Sandstone times . |
| 9 | Here it was suggested that the school 's investment in areas subsequently utilised by the county for its own particular purposes ( including staff development ) became the basis for reacting angrily to the school 's exclusion from the project . |
| 10 | They were extremely grateful to the Government for stepping in with a £140 rebate because they saw their aunts , uncles , friends , cousins and others elsewhere in the country paying a great deal less . |
| 11 | Thus if I incur a verbal warning for stepping out of the area , I do n't then expect to receive a half-point penalty for a slight contravention of another rule . |
| 12 | Eyeing the police car , she wondered whether it belonged to Officer Hassan and whether it was worth hanging around for a word with him . |
| 13 | The examination will be conducted by means of a cassette recording for dubbing on to the audio equipment at the Local Centre to achieve universal standards of dictation . |
| 14 | The examination will be conducted by means of a cassette recording for dubbing on to the audio equipment at the Local Centre to achieve universal standards of dictation . |
| 15 | The examination will be conducted by means of a cassette recording for dubbing on to the audio equipment at the Local Centre to achieve universal standards of dictation . |
| 16 | How 's about easing up on the sentence , it is Easter after all . ’ |
| 17 | At the edge of the eyes are a pair of long spines , and these point downwards at a steep angle , at very awkward attitude for resting comfortably on the sea floor . |
| 18 | The new ticket office opens in the east stand on monday so no more getting piss wet through queueing up by the back of the west stand ( except for home match days ) . |
| 19 | And why was O'Leary booked for jogging away with the ball for a West Ham free kick … and then he stopped O'Leary taking a kick quickly 10 mins later ? ? ? ? ? ? ? |
| 20 | A tool called a shack-fork — a fork with curved tines and an iron bow at the shoulder was used to gather the swathes of barley into gavels ready for pitching on to the wagons . |
| 21 | He was talking about branching out into the ship-in-a-bottle business because Jonathon will make only ships . |
| 22 | No , I would say that if an independent assessor has been dispatched to this is a good point worth bringing through in the event of erm a disagreement between ourselves and a policy holder , the policy holder has a number of aspects that they can they can approach . |
| 23 | Food can be cooked , stories exchanged , and time left for gazing silently into the flames , watching the dancing shapes at the heart of the fire . |
| 24 | Geologists are notorious for latching on to the name of a particular life-form present in rock formations when thinking up names and equally notorious for changing their minds and the rock 's name afterwards , hence Belemnita quadrata no longer exists because they have renamed it Gonio teuthis quadrata . |
| 25 | A service done out of friendship such as helping out at a barbecue or because of a threat is not within s.1 . |
| 26 | For high earners , the £75,000 cap is probably the strongest argument for hanging on to an existing Section 226 policy , since such policies are not affected by the earnings limit . |
| 27 | So far we 've been concentrating on Meryl 's reasons for hanging round on the gallery in the middle of the night ; all well and good , but what was Gladys doing there ? ’ |
| 28 | Scotland 's Olympic three-day event double silver medallist , Ian Stark , has not been nicknamed the ‘ Flying Scotsman ’ for hanging about on a cross-country course . |
| 29 | This is no night for hanging about in the air . ’ |
| 30 | It is typical of options that if a particular contract does not exist in a ready made form for trading directly on an exchange , it can be manufactured from existing tradeable instruments . |